DRINKING AND DRIVING: PERCEPTIONS AND EVALUATIONS AS A FUNCTION OF LEVEL OF INTOXICATION AND WEATHER

Scenarios describing a night of drinking with friends that involved 3 levels of intoxication (not at all, slight, and very) and 2 levels of weather (clear and rain) were presented to 378 undergraduates. They were asked to estimate the proportion of their peers who would drive home or choose an alternative form of transportation. They were also asked to evaluate those who either drove home or found alternative transportation in terms of likability, cautiousness, skillfulness, and independence. Driving home was found to be the most common mode of transportation, regardless of state of drunkenness or weather conditions. Alternatives to driving home were seen as being utilized only under extreme conditions (e.g., very intoxicated; rainy weather). Peers taking cautious alternatives were perceived as overly cautious and low in skillfulness.

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• Authors:
  • Turris, R J
  • Suls, J
  • Serio, S
  • Reisman, S
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 891-903
• Serial:
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
  • ISSN: 0021-9029

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol use; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Evaluation; Intoxication; Perception; Students; Weather
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00489407
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1989 12:00AM